I’m not so sure EWI. Neo-liberal market power is allergic to counter-powers, especially potentially democratic ones, which limit it’s hegemony.
Sometimes these counter-powers can be nations. But more often than not the national ruling/owning elites operate as facilitators for global market power. See Ireland and corporation tax avoidance.
Increasingly hegemonic market power can’t be arsed with the national level, and likes to impose it’s world-structure an the federated level. The current TIPP ‘negotiations’ are about emasculating possible democratic counter-power in the elected part of the US government and heading off possible EU parliamentary counter-power. Oh and, of course, trades union and consumer association power.
Actually now I think about it and to partially contradict myself – TIPP is both an attack on the federated level and an attack on possible national democratic resistance within the EU.